Archive for November 28th, 2008
Tag Helps Dog Owners Meet New Friends
Springwise: It’s a well-known fact that dogs can be conversation starters that help break the ice with people their owners meet. Taking the notion a step further, a new collar tag from Boston-based SNIF Labs lets pet owners forge new connections with fellow dog-walkers, both online and off. Available in a range of colours and [...]
Detroit Free Press: Chris Hart of Eastpointe enjoyed a romantic Sweetest Day dinner with her boyfriend at an Auburn Hills restaurant without worries about driving home after drinking. When it was time to call it a night, a chauffeur for the Designate, a Birmingham-based designated driver service, safely drove the pair back to Macomb County [...]
Bailout Money Heading To Small Bizs
The Wall Street Journal: Small businesses finally are getting their own little piece of the federal government’s ballooning bailout package. U.S. officials announced the federal government as part of a broader package will lend up to $200 billion to institutions that originate consumer loans and business loans backed by the Small Business Administration. The rationale, [...]
Mom Recycles Banners Into Items Worth Buying
freep.com: Pam Klumpp, a Traverse City mom of three, brainstormed a new business when she wondered out loud how to reuse scrap material from a family friend’s banner-making company. Like many people in her community, Pam recycles plastic, glass and paper and has tried to live a green life. Her husband, Brian, works in a [...]
Ethiopian Review: Here are 10 home based business ideas, in no particular order: 1. Translator. In a multi-ethnic society such as the United State, translation service is in big demand. American Translators Association can be a good source of information on how to establish a home-based translation service. 2. Tutoring. You can start a business [...]
Mother/Daughter Team Work Together To Launch Boutique
Pegasus News: Inside what used to be a tuxedo shop is a store with pink walls, a pink chandelier and two white rocking chairs . This place offers mothers, daughters and grandmothers a place to shop together. Teri and Crissy Camp, a mother-daughter pair, are co-owners of Emma’s Boutique on Brinker Road in Denton. Crissy [...]
Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup
SPACE.com: NASA astronaut Don Pettit loves his coffee. So it comes as no surprise that he found a way to drink coffee from a cup, instead of the traditional straw, on his day off Sunday aboard the International Space Station. Drinking any liquid in the weightless environment of space could be a messy affair. With [...]
Teen Finds Niche In Talk Air Waves
ChicoER.com: It’s like writing a school paper for Meagan Ting, one of the hosts of Teen Talk at Chico’s public radio station, KZFR. She researches a topic, say, mental illness by surfing the Internet, talking to friends or bouncing ideas off her sometimes co-host, Amber McCready. “We e-mail it back and forth until it’s done,” [...]
Waiting For That Life-Changing Idea? Just Sleep On It
The Times: History is peppered with tales of phenomenal ideas taking shape in sleeping minds; Paul McCartney said that he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson said that the idea for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to him in a dream. But what [...]
Americans Drive Less, Creating a Problem
The Wall Street Journal: When gasoline prices shot over $4 a gallon this summer, Americans didn’t wait for Washington to respond with an energy policy. They took action on their own by driving less and switching to more fuel-efficient cars. The results are dramatic, but also problematic. The good news is that gasoline consumption has [...]
Year-End Tech & Tax Tips for Smart Small Bizs
MarketWatch: Successful small business owners are constantly balancing the need to invest in new productivity-enhancing technology with the impact on their bottom lines. But between now and the end of the year, with the help of two unrelated economic factors — increased IRS Section 179 deductions and the growing importance of “Black Friday” and “Cyber [...]
